Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Speaking of Mr. Ni Guangnan, he is one of the Chinese scientific research talents whom Meng Qian admires but feels sorry for. People who know Ni Guangnan should be in the same mood as Meng Qian.

Ni Guangnan is an academician of the Huaxia Academy of Engineering and one of the team members of the first electronic tube computer independently designed by Huaxia. However, he is well-known as the former chairman and chief engineer of Lenovo.

In the 1990s, it was Ni Guangnan's self-designed motherboard that helped Lenovo establish its product advantages. Then, after Lenovo quickly won the first brand of Huaxia Computer, Ni Guangnan proposed the importance of independent technology and applied for the establishment of a chip department, planning the integration of ICT. strategic development path.

However, Ni Guangnan's dream triggered a classic case that made future generations sigh, the 1994 dispute between Lenovo Technology, Industry and Trade and Trade, Industry and Technology.

To put it simply, Ni Guangnan insists that there must be independent technology, independent chips, independent product development, and independent ability to survive in the market for a long time.

But Liu Chuanzhi firmly believes that it is too expensive and unnecessary to do these things. Now that we are so backward, we should focus on product sales. Making money is the kingly way, and we will talk about things like technology when we have money.

Finally, in 1995, Ni Guangnan was kicked out of Lenovo, and the chip department he created was closed.

It can be seen from the interviews of later generations that Ni Guangnan was very worried about Lenovo’s refusal to insist on independent research and development at that time. He always believed that Lenovo at that time had the strength to do research and development, and even Huaxia was the most powerful at that time. One of the enterprises, after all, Lenovo not only had the ability to make money, but also had the resources of the Academy of Sciences.

However, Liu Chuanzhi has also responded to this topic many times. He insisted that doing research and development under such a weak foundation is tantamount to suicide. Since 1996, he has liked to say that the Neon country was crippled by the US trade war. Examples of things.

He said that Neon Country insisted on research and development to challenge the United States when its own strength was insufficient. As a result, it played itself to death.

So he firmly believes that when you are weak, you should not engage in R\u0026D, because the cost of R\u0026D is too high, and even if you develop some technologies, the absolute advantage of others can kill you in minutes.

When you are weak, you should feel at ease to make money. When you have money and strength, you should consider R\u0026D. Although Lenovo has been rich for a long time in 2019, they have not seen them pay attention to R\u0026D.

Records of his speeches were also widely circulated in later generations.

It’s just that what Liu Chuanzhi didn’t know at the time was that a company that basically started at the same time as him, a company that was almost sky-high compared to Lenovo at the time, worked as a switch agent for two years and made some money before starting to engage in independent research and development. up.

Later, the products developed made some money, and the Intellectual Property Department and R\u0026D Department were established immediately to continue research and development.

Then relying on the quality of the researched and developed products and a certain opportunity, it quickly occupied the foreign market, and in the process of enterprise development, it always maintained about 10% of the annual research and development expenses.

This company is known as the representative of the technology priority line opposite to Lenovo's trade priority line: Huawei.

Ni Guangnan has expressed emotion many times that Lenovo did not know how much better than Huawei at the beginning. If Lenovo could engage in research and development, Huaxia's own chips might not be what they are now.

Of course, the dispute between technology, industry and trade and trade, industry and technology has continued until 2019, and it has always been a topic of discussion. Not everyone supports Huawei. Some people think that Huawei is just lucky. There is no need to challenge the United States. If it fails, the company will be gone.

But still the same sentence, Meng Qian doesn't influence others and doesn't care what other people think. At the same time, he also has a firm position of his own. He is a staunch supporter of technology first.

What Meng Qian considers is not profit or technology, but what he considers is that if you are weaker than others, you will give up competition. There is a superficial meaning of this idea, that is, you are better than me, and if I provoke you, I know I will be beaten by you , so I am willing to be your little brother.

However, Meng Qian always felt that it was inappropriate for Liu Chuanzhi to use the Nihong Kingdom as an example, because the Chinese people had something in their bones that the people of the Nihong Kingdom did not have, that is, the backbone of the five thousand years of Chinese culture.

In modern history, how many great achievements and victories have been made by the Chinese people when they were weak or even absolutely backward.

When we use millet and rifles to repel the bombers, can the Neon people dare to imagine?

Maybe behind those achievements are heart-wrenching sacrifices and sacrifices, but looking at it from another angle, no matter how hard it is, there will always be a group of Chinese people with their chests upright.

Because they know that the backbones of Chinese people don't want to bend, and they can't bend!

Just like the Huawei 5G of the later generations, it was indeed targeted by the United States as Liu Chuanzhi said, but so what, China in 19 years is still behind the United States in an all-round way, but except for some people who can't get up on their knees, most of the Chinese people Not afraid of suppression from the United States.

Even, you can always see people saying on the Internet that if you go back to poverty, you must never bow to the United States.

This is the backbone of the Huaxia people. Whether you are an official, a great entrepreneur, or an ordinary person, you must not lose the backbone of the Huaxia people!

Knowing that he will be suppressed all the time if he doesn't have the ability to be independent, but because he is afraid of being beaten, he will obediently be a younger brother. This is something Meng Qian cannot accept.

Because of this, Meng Qian wanted to meet Ni Guangnan in this life. Meng Qian was a complete layman in terms of hardware. If he wanted to make hardware, he needed someone to help him host it. The first person in his heart was Ni Guangnan.

Zhang Shuxin accepted Meng Qian's request for help, but she was not sure when she would be able to pull this thread.

For the next two days, Meng Qian stayed in Ying Haiwei's technical department. Ying Haiwei had worked as a portal before, so this time it was more of an optimization and revision. Previously, Meng Qian communicated with the technology here remotely He happened to come to Yanjing this time, so he came naturally to meet with everyone and speed up the launch of the new portal.

On the evening of October 9th, Li Xia called Zhang Shuxin, "Mr. Zhang, this Meng Qian's background is ugly. He doesn't have any favorable background and foundation. From the evaluation point of view, he is more inclined to be a technical talent. In this way The results of the assessment have caused quite a bit of controversy on our side.”

Zhang Shuxin responded with a smile, "Old Li, why don't you think about the problem from a different angle. Meng Qian has no background but can do what he is doing now. Don't just focus on his games. Registered users of Fengxin It should have reached 10 million."

"Forget it, I shouldn't be the person who called you. Meng Qian is the person you like. You must say he is good. After all, you have always had a temper that does not believe in evil. This time you can change , we all felt like we saw a ghost.”

"Yeah, people like me are willing to transform. You just separated, can't you be more open-minded in doing things?"

On the morning of October 10th, Meng Qian was still in Yinghaiwei's technical department. Judging from the communication situation in the past few days, Yinghaiwei's revised portal website should go online within this year without any problems.

"You will be contacting us for two wind signals at that time."

"Mr. Meng, this is a commercial hooliganism." Meng Qian was telling the people in the technical department that Zhang Shuxin happened to come in.

Meng Qian smiled indifferently, "After a few years, Huaxia Internet companies will start up one after another, and you will know what it means to be a hooligan."

"Boss Meng can foresee the future again? Then guess what I want from you?"

Mr. Zhang is too deep, even if I can see through the universe, I can't see through you.

"I didn't expect Mr. Meng to be glib at times." Zhang Shuxin replied, "News from China Mobile."

"How to say?" Meng Qian became serious.

"They want to go to your place for an inspection."

"Survey?" Meng Qian can accept it after thinking about it. These days, the information is not transparent, and many companies are popular for inspections. "When?"

"This afternoon."

Meng Qian suddenly found it very interesting, "Okay."